The 17th Annual Quality Cinema Warrior Awards!!!!

anyway we got two more categories now

Best Score

Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City

Joe Hisaishi, The Boy and the Heron

Richard Reed Parry, Eileen

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Monster

And the award goes to...

Robbie Robertson!!! Killers of the Flower Moon!!! rip my bro and also my other bro sakamoto

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Mia Goth as Gabi Bauer in Infinity Pool

Anne Hathaway as Rebecca in Eileen

Scarlett Johannson as Midge Campbell & Mercedes Ford in Asteroid City

Rachel McAdams as Barbara Simon in Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb in The Holdovers

And the award goes to...

Da'Vine Joy Randolph!!! lining up with the oscars on this one prob....

Yeah, lost a couple great composers this year.

Did you guys give Mia love last year for Pearl? She deserved that

bsp77 posted...

Yeah, lost a couple great composers this year.

Did you guys give Mia love last year for Pearl? She deserved that

according to the history spreadsheet, no

Cate Blanchett, TAR
Tang Wei, Decision to Leave
Vicky Krieps, Corsage
Lee Ji-eun, Broker
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

pearl was a bad movie btw

Zithers posted...

pearl was a bad movie btw

IYO

Regardless, her performance was great

Pretty sure there were some Goth in Pearl stans among us, though. But love the list we nominated last year.

Brett8 posted...

Pretty sure there were some Goth in Pearl stans among us, though.

i was much more sour on it than anyone else iirc

bsp77 posted...

IYO

well yeah i said it who elses opinion would it be?

I don't remember the numbers but I think she just missed out on making the nominees. My top picks were Vicky Krieps in Corsage and Tang Wei in Decision to Leave I believe.

This scores lineup is great. Was a really strong year for scores I thought. I loved Boy and the Heron, Flower Moon, and Eileen's scores. I also voted for Poor Things and Blue Giant (though I think I might have been the only person who saw Blue Giant).

The fuck even is this?

Cassie posted...

The fuck even is this?

here i can repost the op in case you missed it

Hello, Current Events. It's that time of the year again. The stars are out for the biggest night in Tinseltown - the Quality Cinema Warrior Awards!

If you are unfamiliar with us, we began our awards in 2015 as a response to Board 227's (where these awards are also being posted) deluge of discussions centered on theatrical content, particularly that of superheroes and 80s/90s nostalgia bait, instead of cinema. I found all of this quite disheartening and organized a special team of Quality Cinema Warriors (named so because everyone was frothing at the mouth over the evils of "Social Justice Warriors" at the time - embarrassing!) and started a ranked choice vote of ten Best Picture nominees and five Best [everything else]. We've added some categories and streamlined some of the voting process with category frauds and whatnot over the years. If you would like to view some of our voting history, check the links below:

1932: 1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Trouble in Paradise won)
1948: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78333521 (The Red Shoes)
1955: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77379282 (Pather Panchali)
1960: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/76817599 (The Apartment)
1970: (not linkable sadly - was announced solely on our Discord - but Five Easy Pieces won)
1984: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/77843274 (TIE: Stop Making Sense / Paris, Texas)
1997: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1283-quality-cinema-club/78836004 (Jackie Brown)
2014: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/228-movies-home-media/73754150 (Boyhood)
2015: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/73102774 (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2016: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/74905507 (Manchester by the Sea)
2017: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/76354023 (Phantom Thread)
2018: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/77507475 (First Reformed)
2019: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/78434340 (Parasite)
2020: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79309039 (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
2021: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-at-the-theater/79955689 (Drive My Car)
2022: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/227-movies-new-and-upcoming-releases/80376503 (The Fabelmans)

Shoutout to the following users for voting:

BigLargeHuge
Brett8
capri
confusedteddybear
GrandTheftPikmin
Kastrada
madadude
rockus
Pus_N_Pecans
thesmark88
wetwillies
[guy not on GameFAQs]
[guy whose username I don't remember sorry]

Zithers posted...

here i can repost the op in case you missed it

no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol

Cassie posted...

The fuck even is this?

Hello Cassie, what were your 10 favorite movies of 2023?

Cassie posted...

The fuck even is this?

A fascinating mix of douchebaggery and awesome

I am calling myself that too. I know I can be annoying about movies

Cassie posted...

no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol

Why? Look at most of the BS on CE

bsp77 posted...

A fascinating mix of douchebaggery and awesome

I am calling myself that too. I know I can be annoying about movies

see that makes sense lmao

Cassie posted...

no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol

With the Academy Awards this weekend, this is a fitting current event.

Cassie posted...

no I got thatwhy is it here? Seems like it should be on the movies board lol

well, it is on the movies board. i said that in the OP but not sure you read it.

CE has a lot of movie topics so not sure what's wrong with another one popping up

rockus posted...

With the Academy Awards this weekend, this is a fitting current event.

oh shit it is? Lmao carry on then.

damn, where the hell did the time go?

bsp77 posted...

A fascinating mix of douchebaggery and awesome

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/314e3d35.jpg

I have never been on the movies board. Afraid to go there because I will start arguing way too much

bsp77 posted...

I have never been on the movies board. Afraid to go there because I will start arguing way too much

it's a cesspool

the amount of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc is insane. or was when we all decided to ditch it for discord. doubt it is much better rn.

It used to be a lot more fun because they got a lot madder before. And some guy would call me an enabler of Film Critic Hulk for some reason, even though I didn't really ever follow Film Critic Hulk or know anything about him.

It's still kind of fun though.

ummmm dude its film crit hulk, not film critic hulk

i wish i remembered this feud though. i actually liked that guy's screenwriting book. much better than syd field or whatever.

That's a shame. I have one close friend where we blab endlessly about movies. We tend to agree like 90% of the time.

And my poor wife has to listen to me all the time

Zithers posted...

ummmm dude its film crit hulk, not film critic hulk

I'll take your word for it I guess.

I'll have to check out his screenwriting book though. I'm always looking for interesting books on writing. I found some of Field's books useful for preparation techniques and stuff like that when getting ready to write though.

rockus posted...

I'll take your word for it I guess.

I'll have to check out his screenwriting book though. I'm always looking for interesting books on writing.

i believe its only on kindle

he goes over a lot of methods to writing like parker and stone doing but/then, dan harmon's circles, the hero's journey, etc and why they work or what their limitations are. and goes over how to do descriptive writing without sounding like you're trying to direct. why the 3 act structure isn't really a thing and what exactly an act is. idk how helpful you'd find it since i imagine you know a lot about this already but yea.

Yeah, I've read up on most of that stuff though it might still be interesting to read what he has to say about the three act structure and descriptive writing.

Though the best advice I always think of about descriptive writing is from Paul Schrader during one of those roundtable discussions and he says something about how screenwriting is closer to oral storytelling tradition than literary writing, or something close to that.

And that's always something that I've kept in mind. To try and do it as if I would be telling a story orally to someone or a group of people. To keep descriptions concise and to the point and you don't have to worry about mentioning camera angles and that sort of thing.

I remember reading a lot of student scripts in school and people would write stuff like "closeup on photo" and I'd tell them that they don't really need to do that. Since the writing in screenwriting mainly focuses on the important details we would know the significance of something like that merely because they used the limited space on the page to mention it and wouldn't need to write in that it has a closeup or an insert in the script anyway.

alright folks got two more. here we go.

Best Performance by an Ensemble

Jason Schwartzman, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Scarlett Johansson, & others, Asteroid City

Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro, & others, Killers of the Flower Moon

Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Esai Morales, & others, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Sya Kurokawa, Sakura And, Eita Nagayama, & others, Monster

And the award goes to...

Asteroid City!!!! and hey what do you know the french dispatch also won this category in 2021......

Best Cinematography

Eigil Bryld, The Holdovers

Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4

Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon

Jonathan Ricquebourg, The Taste of Things

Artur Tort, Pacifiction

Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City

And the award goes to...

Robert Yeoman!!! Asteroid City!!! if you can believe it he also won for the french dispatch. and won for grand budapest hotel way back when

Methinks ya guys like Wes too much

bsp77 posted...

Methinks ya guys like Wes too much

i do think our awards going go differently if we voted them. as is, its just a points based system and what is in the top 5 gets thrown into the nominees and the top vote getter wins. as opposed to collecting this and dispensing it to everyone to vote on it. we'd have way diff results i think.

also the jury list will be cooler i promise

Zithers posted...

i do think our awards going go differently if we voted them. as is, its just a points based system and what is in the top 5 gets thrown into the nominees and the top vote getter wins. as opposed to collecting this and dispensing it to everyone to vote on it. we'd have way diff results i think.

also the jury list will be cooler i promise

Any chance I could be included next year :)

I know we argue, but I do see a LOT of movies, and I think you guys could help push me further. You saw my supporting actor list, so you know it isn't all trash IYO

bsp77 posted...

Methinks ya guys like Wes too much

I do wish there was a little more distribution than Asteroid and Flower Moon dominating tbh but it's hard to deny Asteroid City in categories like ensemble and production design and cinematography (I'm disappointed Scarlet and Eileen didn't make the nominations list tho). I think the larger the voting body the more it helps films that are just kind of a gimme like Asteroid City in production design or Flower Moon in like... most of its categories.

Though I also think Anderson has been making some of the most interesting films of his career since like Fantastic Mr. Fox (French Dispatch and Grand Budapest Hotel I think are two of his best) and I'm kind of surprised that his last two films have garnered so little praise from people generally, and even at times animosity when I think they're some of his most ambitious movies he's made, and a lot of people seem like they can't get passed his visual style to engage with what the films are doing. But yeah, I love his stuff, too much? I'd argue it's not me who is wrong, it's the kids!

bsp77 posted...

Any chance I could be included next year :)

I know we argue, but I do see a LOT of movies, and I think you guys could help push me further. You saw my supporting actor list, so you know it isn't all trash IYO

ok. a quick questionnaire has been thrown together to see if you are worthy of an invite to the discord.

question 1: have you seen buzzard?

question 2: Ask them for their top 3 of 2023

question 3: Name three movies youd want to have seen opening weekend

question 4: On a scale of 1 to 10, how important are sex scenes

question 5: Whats the ideal runtime for a movie?
A. 80-120 minutes
B. 120-180 minutes
C. There is no ideal runtime for a movie.
D. Yes there is.

question 6: Rank these elements of filmmaking in order of importance:
Plot
Character
Structure
Continuity
Style
Atmosphere

this is open to everyone btw if they want special access to a discord with the gods of movie watching

throwing up two more

Best International Motion Picture

From Germany, Christian Petzold's Afire

From France, Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall

From Finland, Aki Kaurismki's Fallen Leaves

From Japan, Hirkozau Kore-eda's Monster

From Japan, Wim Wenders' Perfect Days

From France, Trn Anh Hng's The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

The Taste of Things!!! this is france's fourth win in the modern era for qcw's :O

Best Adapted Screenplay

Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Based on the novel of the same name by Judy Blume)

Tony McNamara, Poor Things (Based on the novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray)

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin)

Martin Scorsese & Eric Roth, Killers of the Flower Moon (Based on the book of the same name by David Grann)

Trn Anh Hng, The Taste of Things (Based on the novel, The Passionate Epicure, by Marcel Rouff)

And the award goes to...

Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth!!! scorsese's second win for writing after silence in 2016

Zithers posted...

ok. a quick questionnaire has been thrown together to see if you are worthy of an invite to the discord.

question 1: have you seen buzzard?

question 2: Ask them for their top 3 of 2023

question 3: Name three movies youd want to have seen opening weekend

question 4: On a scale of 1 to 10, how important are sex scenes

question 5: Whats the ideal runtime for a movie?
A. 80-120 minutes
B. 120-180 minutes
C. There is no ideal runtime for a movie.
D. Yes there is.

question 6: Rank these elements of filmmaking in order of importance:
Plot
Character
Structure
Continuity
Style
Atmosphere

this is open to everyone btw if they want special access to a discord with the gods of movie watching

Why do you want people with the same viewpoints?

My international nominations for 2023:

Anatomy of a Fall (winner)
Society of the Snow
Godzilla Minus One
Fallen Leaves
Zone of Interest

Perfect Days, Monster, and Teacher's Lounge barely missed the cut. Those three and Zone of Interest are very close together.

bsp77 posted...

Why do you want people with the same viewpoints?

My international nominations for 2023:

Anatomy of a Fall (winner)
Society of the Snow
Godzilla Minus One
Fallen Leaves
Zone of Interest

Perfect Days, Monster, and Teacher's Lounge barely missed the cut. Those three and Zone of Interest are very close together.

well at least half of those were gag questions. and it isn't really the same viewpoint but someone discerning or showing a varied interest in cinema of all budgets, time periods, styles, genres, nations, etc

Zithers posted...

cinema of all budgets, time periods, styles, genres, nations, etc

I think you know I do. "Discerning" is more of a subjective term. If I have a problem, as I have told you, it is that I enjoy too much.

I know you do not agree with many of these, but this is a range:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0f794b40.jpg

Best Original Screenplay

Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola, Asteroid City

Samy Burch, May December

David Hemingson, The Holdovers

Yuji Sakamoto, Monster

Justine Triet & Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

And the award goes to...

Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Asteroid City!!! wes' second win after grand budapest

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Leonie Benesch as Carla Nowak in The Teachers' Lounge

Juliette Binoche as Eugnie in The Taste of Things

Lily Gladstone as Mollie Kyle in Killers of the Flower Moon

Sandra Hller as Sandra Voyter in Anatomy of a Fall

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things

And the award goes to...

Lily Gladstone!!! her second win after certain women, which was in the supporting category

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon

Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham in The Holdovers

Charles Melton as Joe Yoo in May December

Thomas Schubert as Leon in Afire

Jason Schwartzman as Augie Steenbeck & Jones Hall in Asteroid City

Kji Yakusho as Hirayama in Perfect Days

And the award goes to...

Paul Giamatti!!! oscars need to do the right thing and agree w us on this one

alright gotta wrap this up. hope you enjoy bsp.

Best Achievement in Directing

Wes Anderson, Asteroid City

Todd Haynes, May December

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster

Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Trn Anh Hng, The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

Wes Anderson!!! his second win for directing after grand budapest!!!

moon and asteroid with 5 wins each.... who will win the final award of the night???

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Christian Petzold's Afire

Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall

Wes Anderson's Asteroid City

Alexander Payne's The Holdovers

Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Todd Haynes' May December

Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Hirokazu Kore-eda's Monster

Wim Wenders' Perfect Days

Trn Anh Hng's The Taste of Things

And the award goes to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbxoZs_rwdA

Killers of the Flower Moon!! congrats to the maestro on finally getting his QCW!!!!!

time to post full totals, runners-up, and a jury style list!!!!

Winners -
Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon
Director: Wes Anderson, Asteroid City
Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lead Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Supporting Actor: Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Ensemble: Asteroid City
Original Screenplay: Asteroid City
Adapted Screenplay: Killers of the Flower Moon
Cinematography: Asteroid City
Editing: Killers of the Flower Moon
Production Design: Asteroid City
Score: Killers of the Flower Moon
Animation: The Boy and the Heron
Documentary: Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Debut: Joyland
International: The Taste of Things

Points
Killers of the Flower Moon - 81 (3)
Asteroid City - 74 (3)
The Holdovers - 60
The Taste of Things - 57 (2)
Monster - 50 (1)
May December - 37 (1)
Afire - 34 (1)
Anatomy of a Fall - 26
Perfect Days - 26 (1)
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - 23
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Fallen Leaves - 21
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - 21
Poor Things - 20

#1s that didn't make it - Beyond Utopia, Oppenheimer

Runners-up:
Picture: Asteroid City
Director: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Lead Actor: Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days
Lead Actress: Sandra Hller, Anatomy of a Fall & Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things
Supporting Actor: Donnie Yen, John Wick Chapter 4 & Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Supporting Actress: Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ensemble: Killers of the Flower Moon
Original Screenplay: May December
Adapted Screenplay: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Cinematography: Killers of the Flower Moon
Editing: Asteroid City
Production Design: Barbie
Score: Eileen Animation: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
Documentary: Geographies of Solitude
Debut: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
International: Monster

and finally, the Jury List, where we pretend movies can only win one award (assigning them from most prestigious to least i guess)

Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon
Director: Wes Anderson, Asteroid City
Lead Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lead Actress: Sandra Hller, Anatomy of a Fall
Supporting Actor: Donnie Yen, John Wick Chapter 4
Supporting Actress: Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Ensemble: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
Original Screenplay: May December
Adapted Screenplay: Poor Things
Cinematography: Pacifiction
Editing: Oppenheimer
Production Design: Barbie
Score: Eileen
Animation: The Boy and the Heron
Documentary: Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros
Debut: Joyland
International: The Taste of Things

thanks for reading CE

cya at the movies

nyone besides bsp wanna see this shit

Believe it or not, I did appreciate the awards. But you guys seriously need more voters, as Asteroid City winning so much is likely due to just random sampling of a few guys that really liked it. BTW, I liked it too and gave it an 8, but Grand Budapest Hotel it is not.

You think kung fu panda 4 is gonna sweep next year?

bsp77 posted...

Believe it or not, I did appreciate the awards. But you guys seriously need more voters, as Asteroid City winning so much is likely due to just random sampling of a few guys that really liked it. BTW, I liked it too and gave it an 8, but Grand Budapest Hotel it is not.

10 of 14 voters had in their top ten movies so i think everyone just liked it basically. same with killers. there's some flaws in the process because consensus does tend to center on one or two movies. killers and asteroid won 6 and 5 awards. fabelmans and drive my car won 5. portrait of a lady on fire won 6, as did parasite. phantom thread won NINE.

so yeah that's why i presented the jury list version to really show of a variety of what we appreciated this year

Yeah, I would assume those two won a lot because they showed up on most ballots, even if not that high on some of them.

Wish we could have got more wins for The Taste of Things. The jury list is pretty cool tho.

I guess I should give Taste of Things a chance, eh?

Admittedly, I was petty and overjoyed when it wasn't even nominated for International Film. I was like, "suck it, France, for not nominating Anatomy of a Fall"

Yeah, Taste of Things is wonderful. Part of the reason Anatomy of a Fall wasn't submitted was because they weren't sure if it would be disqualified because it might have too much spoken English in it.

Thought Anatomy of a Fall was great but The Taste of Things is fantastic, such a beautiful film. Wish it would have gotten a nomination at the Oscars, I had to drive like 40 minutes to go see it and maybe it would have played somewhere closer if it got a nomination.

Alles-Losen posted...

You think kung fu panda 4 is gonna sweep next year?

Right now Robot Dreams is already looking like an animated frontrunner.